[sciguy125]

He should have still been held accountable for his crimes. The way I see it, he was already on borrowed time. If the system was efficient enough, he wouldn't have had time to reform. Look at it this way: if someone gets life without parole, do they get released if they change?

A lot of people were using this case as a means to protest the death penalty. Personally, I feel that they were going about it the wrong way. He was already sentenced. If you don't like the death penalty, you need to work to get rid of it as a whole, not by trying to defend individuals.